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Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors

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Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors is a business podcast hosted by Jeff Dewing. It has 66 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Welcome to Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors. CEO of Cloudfm Group Jeff Dewing talks to entrepreneurs, business leaders and outliers about times they have "Done the opposite" by rejecting commonly held beliefs in their business or profession. They discuss the birth of the idea, the push back and revolutions that ensued.

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Profit vs Purpose: Redefining Success

2

Trust, Transparency & Technology

3

How Culture becomes a Competitive Advantage

4

Leading with Vulnerability: The Power of Saying ‘I Don’t Know’

5

Doing the Opposite: Challenging Business Norms

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From £7.60 to £65 Million: Starting Over

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Conversations with Jeff Dewing – COMING SOON

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Matthew Maltzoff – Vulnerability as a Superpower: The story of PropTech Connect

9

JP Johnson – The Performance Gap: Why EPCs Fail and How to Fix Them

10

Dr Aleksandra Przydrozna – Innovation in Retrofitting Future-ready Sustainable Buildings

11

Simon Alexander Ong – Mastering your Energy to Achieve Personal and Professional Growth

12

David Allison – Demographics are Nonsense! Values are Key in Properly Understanding People

13

Matt Alder – Levelling up your recruitment practices to benefit both the organisation and the candidates

14

Richard Medcalf – How to combine opportunity, inspiration and empathy into a positive lasting legacy

15

Brendan McGurgan – Transforming and Scaling Businesses through Visionary Leadership

16

Morra Aarons-Mele – Achieving maximum performance by prioritising positive mental health

17

Ali Khan – How to take ownership of your own health

18

Doug D Gordon – From Near-death to a New Direction in Empathetic Leadership

19

Mark A. Mears – The LEAF Model: Leadership, Engagement, Accountability and Fulfilment

20

A panel discussion - Strengths and Strategies for Neurodiverse Workforces

21

Dr Joan Fallon - Reshaping our understanding of Autism

22

Dr Mark Goulston - Transforming Pain into HOPE (healing, optimism, perspective, and excitement)

23

Garry Ridge - Creating an Empowering Company Culture

24

Doing the Opposite: Business Disruptors - The Best of Season 3

25

Sue Fennessey – where there’s darkness, let the sunshine in!

26

Celynn Morin – Creating mental margin by listening to our bodies

27

“Nature has all the answers” - A panel discussion on solutions to the climate crisis

28

Nazir Afzal OBE – Giving a voice to those who don’t get heard

29

“Having courage to change” - A panel discussion on the future of the Workplace

30

Vikas Shah MBE DL – Knowing your values and finding your purpose

31

Manley Hopkinson – leading teams through compassion, understanding and listening

32

Julio Bruno – reinvention, reassessment and taking time to think

33

John Mullins – the entrepreneurial mindset and breaking the rules

34

“We need to radically reset” - A panel discussion on sustainability and business

35

Series 3 launches this week!

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Jeff’s Favourite Episodes - Jamie Waller – Bringing kindness to a previously unkind industry

37

Jeff’s Favourite Episodes - Emma Stroud – Thrive through Laughter and Authenticity

38

Jeff's Favourite Episodes - Julian Hall – Teaching and Inspiring Entrepreneurship

39

Jeff's Favourite Episodes - Mark Webb – Changing the disability conversation

40

Jeff's Favourite Guests - Rob Stephenson – Removing the stigma around mental ill health

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Jeff's Favourite Guests - Alan Brazil – Take your Chances

42

Jeff's Favourite Guests - Diana Morato Feliciano – Silencing your Critics

43

Jeff's Favourite Guests - Jeroen Van De Waal – Turning the Tide on Climate

44

Jeff's Favourite Guests - Mandy Hickson – Failure fuelling change

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Jeff's Favourite Guests - Sir Clive Woodward OBE – Running exceptional teams

46

Rob Stephenson – Removing the stigma around mental ill health

47

Mark Webb – Changing the disability conversation

48

Levent Yildizgoren – Defining moments that make us re-evaluate our lives

49

Emma Stroud – Thrive through Laughter and Authenticity

50

Duncan Goose – Great Human Values

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